Centenary of the death of Sir Henry
Tate Sir Henry Tate died on 5 December 1899. He was the founder of the
Tate Gallery, in London, which opened on 21 July 1887 and to which he
gave his own collection of 65 paintings, a number of which were by Millais.
His fortune came from sugar refining and from his patenting of the means
of cutting sugar into dice-sized cubes.